So, for actual, insightful, investigative journalism, America is down to Teen Vogue and ... Gamers Nexus?

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/117610302654490905

indeed

A household income of $100,000 now counts as lower-middle class in 12 states, per a MoneyLion analysis of Census data:

Massachusetts
New Jersey
Maryland
Hawaii
California
New Hampshire
Washington
Colorado
Utah
Connecticut
Alaska
Virginia

Massachusetts has the highest bar:

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

@Aubrie Yesterday we visited the Oregon Rail Heritage Center and got to see some steam locomotives, including SP 4449.

Not many people were visiting, and the museum staff seemed eager to have more visitors. It’s all in one giant room. If you can climb steps, you can go into a locomotive cab. Their whole machine shop for maintaining locomotives is at one side of the room. They have nice signage and people who will answer all your questions. It was great. Highly recommended.

#trains

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I sometimes read about the jokes that people living in the Soviet Union in the 80's used to make about their country and how everything was falling apart and nothing worked anymore.

@APBBlue @LabSpokane Duck is far more flavorful.

Related: THIS DUCK RECIPE IS AMAZING AND EVERYONE SHOULD MAKE IT FOR THANKSGIVING INSTEAD OF DRY BLAND TURKEY: https://lifehacker.com/actually-you-should-roast-this-duck-instead-of-a-turke-1848028209

Sigh.

WSJ reports that NVIDIA allegedly artificially inflated the ongoing GPU and memory shortage by investing in AI startups that would go on to buy NVIDIA GPUs and build data centers.

(Jensen Huang is squarely in the frame for what amounts to serious—$250Bn of serious—fraud.)

https://www.techpowerup.com/354814/nvidia-allegedly-engineered-scarcity-by-funding-ai-startups-to-buy-its-gpus

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/117613946745390069

To nobody's surprise, CEOs of companies who should've never been allowed to grow this much will try to fuck people over as much as they can so their number can go up more.

This leather jacket wearing motherfucker owes me 80% of the current cost of the PC I couldn't buy this year.

Knives are cutlery, forks are stabblery, spoons are scooplery

@davidgerard I don't know about Microsoft, but the FAA failure sounds like bog standard systems rollout by people who have no business doing a systems rollout

Even if you take their words at face value and don't read the subtext- they rolled out a system without doing proper testing of any kind and apparently didn't do a phased rollout. For a life or death system? Don't let these people near a computer ever again

The problem and fix for the FAA outage:

Digging through AI gobbledygook to come up with a coherent description of the problem, here’s my understanding:

The SMART tool rollout and an update to Chicago FAA FTI network forced a reboot across 20 year old Cisco 600 series routers and legacy Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) copper switches. As those routers attempted to reestablish routing tables the surge of reconnection traffic from the smart AI system that tries to pull in 22 data feeds at once limited processors and memory buffers causing them to output corrupted radar telemetry and pilot comms traffic. Because Chicago is central East-West hub, that routing instability rapidly cascaded across 22 regional air route centers.

This affected pings to determine if the system was up and running and pilot to tower communications over the FTI network.

TR:
So update the antiquated equipment but also the “SMART” system has no (or insufficient) backoff strategy or network monitoring to properly handle and report the problem. Also why were 22 centers updated at once?

Also I sure hope those data feeds are scrutinized with proper validation and error handling.

How crypto and AI lost the midterms, and why they say they didn’t

Crypto and AI super PACs went undefeated in races they were always going to win. In competitive ones, most of their money backed losers.

https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-ai-lost-the-midterms/

by @molly0xfff

That seemed to go well. Then:

7yo: "What even *is* AI? <classmate> says she loves it and I don't even know what it is."

[Already feeling good about having provided appropriate insulation thus far.]

Me: "Well, it's actually a few different things. It's a kind of computer program. 'AI' stands for 'artificial intelligence'..."

7yo, interrupting, laughing dismissively: "But it can't be intelligent, it's fake!"

I'm taking this as a win for now.

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Apropos of nothing ...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/117611988673367338

All flights in the U.S. are grounded. A reporter asks the head of the FAA if this has anything to do with implementation of AI in air traffic control systems. His answer: We call it S.I. now.

#Idiocracy #FAA #AIChaos.

Preliminary Microsoft RCA just dropped /s

#OfficePocalypse #ShittySysadmin #ShitPost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromReddit

@ai6yr